Example sentences of "[adv] have made a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference .
2 Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship .
3 In choosing your background materials you will already have made a commitment to a particular colour .
4 But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with .
5 SHORT of selecting a dead student , the Nobel Prize Committee could hardly have made a choice more calculated to embarrass and enrage the Chinese leadership .
6 You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact .
7 The company also had made a lot of new product introductions , he added .
8 She really had made an effort to accept Rune 's invitation for the three of them to attend the firm 's party on the eve of their campaign presentation , but at the last moment her nerve had failed her .
9 Even though men , traditionally , have more time for hobbies than women , especially when children are small , by retirement age many women who are not working full-time have made a programme of daytime social and leisure activities for themselves .
10 you really have made a pig 's ear of the whole thing . ’
11 Wilko seemingly has made a bid of ( I think the figure was ) 90,000 .
12 In my opinion , Dale Spender here has made an error : the error of failing to distinguish between a bias in the language and a bias in the analytic system used by linguists .
13 He could well have made a throne for a Medici or a table for the Brighton Pavilion , and he will surely be making pieces in the 1990s that will be starting in their modernity .
14 Assuming the trustees use the loan to acquire Newco shares which they then distribute to employees ( relying on the Revenue 's press release of 5 December 1990 to ensure the trust does not suffer a capital gains tax charge ) , they will not be able to repay the borrowings , in which case Newco might as well have made a gift of the necessary funds to the trustees at the outset .
15 Near the end of his reign Perdikkas may even have made an alliance with Argos , who after the Peace of Nikias in 421 again starts to take an individual line on foreign policy .
16 We shall remember Jack Nicklaus shedding the years in 1986 , and spiriting the ball into the hole with a long-bladed putter which must surely have made a fortune for its inventor .
17 Even having made a commitment to the climb , the option of retreat is always open if you sense the temperature is too high or the snow conditions dangerous .
18 I mean there was er on the television and etcetera only the two weeks ago , we had two of the girls from here had made an approach about AIDS .
19 Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had .
20 It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her .
21 From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London .
22 On the positive side , at least one court recently has made an adoption order with a condition of access to grandparents with whom the child had important links .
23 The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit .
24 He knew now that he himself would never have made a flyer .
25 If I had n't , Manchester United would never have made an offer for me .
26 In a few days or weeks Francis would almost certainly have made a will and it was unlikely that Anna would have been the principal , let alone the sole beneficiary .
27 Six thousand miles away , Jill and Peter felt they too had made an investment of their time and the company 's money and pleaded with Bernard for a little longer to educate the American customer .
28 ‘ I certainly have made a lot of mistakes and I have learned that the higher up the ladder you go , the less time you have in which to make your decisions .
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